Buy Committee: I Moved North and I Desperately Need a Coat. Help?

Hello, Buy Committee, it’s me, filling in for your usual host Tercius. I’m writing this while staring out my window in Columbus, Ohio, where it’s currently snowing on November 7. As somebody who’s never before lived north of the Mason-Dixon line, it’s dawning on me that my coat closet is woefully underprepared for the…

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Author: Shep McAllister on The Inventory, shared by Ana Suarez to Lifehacker

What’s The Worst Thing You’ve Ever Seen While Flying?

Anyone who travels by air enough likely has a very specific set of pet peeves based on all the terrible things they’ve experienced while flying—but there are some things that go totally above and beyond small annoyances. You know, those things that you just cannot believe someone actually did, those things that leave…

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Author: Elizabeth Blackstock on Jalopnik, shared by Virginia K. Smith to Lifehacker

Play These ‘Pencil-and-Paper’ Games With Your Kid

There are many times during the course of parenting that you find yourself somewhere with a kid, waiting for something to happen. You might be waiting for the doctor to call you back for an appointment, waiting for your food to arrive in the restaurant or waiting for the plane to land. You need something to do, so you…

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Author: Meghan Moravcik Walbert on Offspring, shared by Meghan Moravcik Walbert to Lifehacker

CDC Officially Confirms Vitamin E Acetate as Prime Suspect in Vaping Illnesses

The CDC announced today that they are finally on board with the leading theory about what’s causing the vaping illness they are calling EVALI: vitamin E acetate, found mainly in THC vapes. A new technique for sampling lung fluid revealed that all of the patients tested—a convenience sample of 29 people from 10…

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Author: Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki to Lifehacker